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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is making 50 million pounds ($83 million) in new funding available to Pakistan to help the country pacify its lawless border with Afghanistan.
PLYMOUTH MEETING's John Grant supported and voted for Barack Obama , but it was "no sale" Tuesday night after the president outlined his plans for expanding the war and our chances for success in Afghanistan - which Grant sees as entering a fruitless, budget-busting quagmire.
Washington's NATO allies will face pressure to commit more troops and money to supplement President Barack Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers starting on Thursday.
President Barack Obama campaigned on the promise of bringing troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq as soon as possible. He was elected because war-weary Americans have grown tired of spending money overseas with a recession devastating the homefront.
Now this is Obama's war. The president has announced plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to "get the job done." What exactly is the job? Who is the enemy? Is it the Taliban ? Is it Afghan Taliban or Punjabi Taliban from Pakistan ?
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic groups with a stake in matters of war and peace were alternately hopeful and dejected by President Barack Obama's plan to add 30,000 troops to the war effort in Afghanistan.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas —President Obama tried to weave together aims that were simultaneously reasonable and contradicting in his long-awaited Afghanistan policy announced Tuesday, which appropriately is frustrating yet befitting such a complex puzzle.The president will send 30,000 American troops, some within weeks, and refocused the mission of U.S. forces, who now will be charged with securing ...
Albania says it has agreed to accept more former Guantánamo detainees, but not members of China's ethnic Uighur Muslim minority.
US President Barack Obama's most senior diplomatic and military aides worked Wednesday to shelter his new Afghan "surge" strategy from skeptical lawmakers' bruising questions and criticisms.
President Barack Obama is holding an uncertain hand in his high-stakes gamble in the fight against Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Weak partners in both countries, doubts about the speed of building up Afghan security forces and allies reluctant to commit themselves wholeheartedly to the battle all raise questions about the strategy.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s decision to set a target date for starting U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan divided lawmakers as he is seeking to consolidate support for his war plan.
The Obama administration sought Wednesday to win firmer backing from Islamabad in fighting extremism by pledging to sharply step up support for Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation wary of US actions.
Itzhak Perlman was afflicted with polio when he was 4. Now, 60 years later he's helping to rid the world of the disease.
The first of 30,000 new U.S. troops will arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks, top U.S. officials said on Wednesday, even as they made clear plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip.
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